S 1510

A.D. 845 x 853. Will of Badanoth Beotting. English.

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS: BL Cotton Ch. ii. 42 (s. ix med.; BM Facs., ii. 25)

Printed: Hickes, Diss. Epist., pp. 54-5; K 238; Thorpe, pp. 476-8, with translation; Sweet, OET, pp. 449-50 (no. 42); Sweet, Second Reader, pp. 215-16 (no. 26); B 417; Campbell 1938, p. 137, with translation, pp. 138-42; Robertson, Charters, no. 6 (p. 10), with translation.

Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Deanesly 1927, p. 4 n. 3, dates it to c. 844; Campbell 1938, authentic; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Robertson, Charters, pp. 269-71; Brooks 1984, pp. 148, 159 and 357 n. 22, p. 361 n. 70, scribe also wrote S 296, 1194; Keynes 1990, p. 252 n. 101; Pelteret 1995, p. 277; S 296.

Px Ic Badanoð Beotting cyðo 7 writan hato hu min willa is ðet min ærfe lond fere ðe Ic et Aeðeluulfe cyninge begæt 7 gebohte mid fullum friodome on æce ærfe æfter minum dege 7 minra ærfewearda ðet is mines wifes 7 minra bearna . ic wille ærist me siolfne Gode allmehtgum forgeofan to ðere stowe æt Cristes cirican 7 min bearn ðEr liffest gedoan 7 wiib 7 cild ðæm hlaforde 7 higum 7 ðære stowe befestan ober minne dei to friðe 7 to mundbyrde 7 to hlaforddome on ðæm ðingum ðe him ðearf sie 7 hie brucen londes hiora dei 7 higon gefeormien to minre tide swæ hie soelest ðurhtion megen 7 higon us mid heora godcundum godum swE gemynen swæ us arlic 7 him ælmeslic siE 7 ðonne ofer hiora dei wifes 7 cilda. Ic bebeode on Godes noman ðæt mon agefe ðæt lond Inn higum to heora beode him to brucanne on ece ærfe swæ him liofast sie . 7 ic biddo higon for Godes lufe ðæt se monn se higon londes unnen to brucanne ða ilcan wisan leste on swæsendum to minre tide 7 ða godcundan lean minre saule mid gerece swE hit mine ærfenuman ær onstellen . ðonne is min willa ðæt ðissa gewriota sien twa gelice oðer habben higon mid boecum oðer mine ærfeweardas heora dei . ðonne is ðes londes ðe ic higum selle .XVI. gioc ærðe londes 7 medwe all on æce ærfe to brucanne ge minne dei ge æfter swæ to ationne swæ me mest red 7 liofast sie. + Ceolnoð archiepiscopus ðiss writo 7 festniE mid Cristes rode tacne.
+ Alchhere dux ðiss writo 7 ðeafiE.
+ Bægmund presbiter abbasðiss writo 7 ðeafiE.
+ Hysenoð pr' ðiss writo 7 ðeafie.
+ Wigmund preost.
+ Badenoð preost.
+ Osmund preost.
+ Suiðberht diacon.
+ Dyddel.
+ Cichus.
+ Sigemund.
+ Eðelwulf.
+ Tile.
+ Cyneberht.
+ Eðelred.
+ Badanoð.